You mean like Christopher Reeve, as Superman? His big career defining moment before being cast in that movie was destroying a row of lights in college. Or Hugh Jackman, unknown outside of Australia before he replaced Dougray Scott as Wolverine? Or Chris Hemsworth, an Australian soap opera actor until he became Thor? Hell, Henry Cavill was a British TV actor, and he did a great job as Superman.

Realistically, there’s a better track record of unknowns playing superheroes than movie stars. Consider that movies starring “bankable” stars tend to movies like Catwoman and Steel. By this logic, the best superhero movie is the one with the most stars, meaning Batman And Robin takes the crown.

First of all, one assumes that she’ll be hitting the gym to build muscle mass. Secondly, she was a sports trainer in the Israeli Army. So basically she can beat up you, me, our mutual friends, and probably that guy who keeps calling himself a karateka down by the strip mall just on her basic training. She can probably handle stage-punching Ben Affleck.

Who? Gina Carano is essentially Cynthia Rothrock with better agents; she’s great in Haywire, but she’s not winning Oscars anytime soon. Jamie Alexander will be Sif until she dies or the Marvel Cinematic Universe does. And Hollywood, as we’ve noted before, has gone through literally every other actress with any notable name recognition. It was an unknown, or nothing.

The Gina Carano one I’ve seen, and it drives me nuts. She couldn’t portray a coma patient convincingly, and the only reason she was decent in Haywire was that she had very little to do outside of fight.

because clearly this movie was going to pull them in. yeah they better get someone that can get the Oscar in SUPERMAN VS BATMAN rather than cast someone I can believe solidly will beat the holy hell out of anyone.

True dat. I don’t think a lot of people seem to understand that the only thing Gina Carano has going for her is a very very small minority of extremely vocal fans. But apart from this…she doesn’t work. Hawywire was literally everything any actors in any universe. A legendary director. Some of the biggest stars of the present and the last 30 years. All of this was delivered on a silver platter to her. No unknown actor has ever recieved such an amazing gift. And yet the movie bombed badly. If she can’t pull this off when given every advantage known to man and beast I can’t see what makes people thing she would be successful leading a big franchise

I don’t think starring in the Fast & the Furious is great gauge for ‘acting’. You don’t really need to act anything on that movie (and I’m saying that as a big fan). I think the rabble need to step back and see if maybe, just maybe she takes to the Heath Ledger effect (as people were skeptical as shit when he took over).

Ha! Well done Setiz, no idea why anyone should be complaining when we are all _actually_ getting a live action wonder woman in any form.

My 2 cents is that I’ve always thought that amazonians/thymiscarans(sp?) should be played by someone at least vaguely Mediterranean, so I’m more than OK with it. Moreover, if they are going for a more Nolan-verse/new 52 esque ruthless battle ready Diana vs a pre52/timm-verse compassionate “matriarch of the super hero community” Diana, make sure she bulks up and I can see her standing toe to toe physically with affleck or cavill

they were originally going to go with megan gale, another aussie, in one of the iterations of wonder woman. she has the buxom brunette look of lynda carter, but probably can’t act for shit. but hey, neither can chris hemsworth, so there you go.

I get that in comic books big muscles = strong, but really what does muscle mass have to do with strength in a comic universe? Technically, a morbidly obese guy from Krypton is still going to be able to throw trains and punch holes in mountains like Superman when he comes to Earth. In Wonder Woman’s case, Is a skinny, non-muscular woman who’s a superhero and still incredibly strong so unbelievable? Or does that ruin the realism woven into a woman who belongs to a fictional race of chicks and flies around in an invisible jet?

This is fantastic and you should feel fantastic. I have nothing against Gosot and I’m looking forward to seeing her Wonder Woman, but this seems like an awful lot of Not Superman in a Superman ‘sequel’…

And I’ve never read a comic before, but I sure as shit know that Linda Carter was Wonder Woman, and Linda Carter’s Wonder Woman outfit showcased one awesome set of fun bags as I began to understand the urges of early teenage life.

That, my friend, is why Wonder Woman needs sweater meat. Who cares about your drawings; Wonder Woman is Linda Carter, and anyone who seeks to be Wonder Woman is going to be compared to that.

At first I was like great a 100# model playing Wonder Women. Then I found out she was 5’9″ so she isn’t tiny. Get her lifting some weights to bulk up and she will be fine. I think WW should look like a Crossfit chick (but not the super andro ones). So I don’t think big boobs are that important anyway (padding+bras+hollywood magic= big boobs).
All Israelis have to serve two years in the military that in no way makes her some hardcore special ops trooper. She probably did office work, drove a truck or did some other noncombat support role which around 80% of all army personnel are.

WW is all about the T and A, and they could have found someone with bigger Ts and shapelier A. Sorry if that offends the weirdos and chicks out there who care about the mythology of the comic book Amazons and the presence of a strong female role model for young readers. Lol.

So people are not only wrong, but also sexist for wanting an actress cast who actually looks like the comicbook character they are being hired to portray? Is every male fanboy equally “sexist” and wrong for having the EXACT SAME expectations of every male character ever portrayed by an actor in literally every comicbook movie or television show since the beginning of time? For some who’s “job it is to think this hard about this stuff” it is obvious you must have worked a half day on this one.